Seder Tephiloth [Hebrew prayers for weekday, Sabbath and select personal and festive events through the year].

(BINDING)

Shlomo Proops

Amsterdam

1730

According to the Aschkenazi rite. * And: Book of Psalms and Techinos supplicatory liturgies for women]. All with translation and commentary in Judeo-German and printed in waybertaytsch type. Striking engraved title page with eight Biblical vignettes all relating to women. Additional title-page prior to Techinos (f. 121). Binding by Benjamin Raguin, c. 1730: Full calf with applied silver corner-pieces and extended twin silver clasps and hinges, marked “BR.” * Accompanied by: Two silver shields engraved in in Hebrew with male and female names: “Edel, the daughter of Leib and Aaron, the son of Aaron.”

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1381.

Provenance: Stadhuis Museum, Zierikzee (Netherlands). See Museum Catalogue by Bernard van Noordwijk, Zilver van Kaft tot Kaft (2017) no. 20 pp. 54-5 (catalogue accompanies the lot). This prayer-book is known as a “Weibertefille” - a Siddur intended especially for women, customarily presented by a groom to his bride on their wedding-day.